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I'll consider not travelling, be it for business or pleasure, when the Powers That Be(tm) start not flying around in their Executive Transports(tm) to meet up a
by Dalewyn 3y ago
I'll consider not travelling, be it for business or pleasure, when the Powers That Be(tm) start not flying around in their Executive Transports(tm) to meet up and have Grand Feasts(tm) that cost entire slices of national budgets.
G7? COP? NATO? UN? And more? Remote all that bullshit. There's no reason Biden or Kishida or Xi or Macron or whoever the hell it is has to go anywhere in person anymore in the era of high speed digital communications.
- tmnvix 3y agoI've heard it said that all the real discussion happens in hotel suites.
- tough 3y agoIs discussion a shiboleth here for -exchanging- money?
- alisonatwork 3y agoAt least politicians traveling are ostensibly doing it as representatives of their constituents. In theory it is reasonable that diplomatic summits whose outcome could affect millions of people are attended not by the millions but by a small number of professionals whose job it is to advocate for the millions. Much less defensible, from a utilitarian perspective, are the corporate retreats and company meetups that are quite common in the tech industry.
- Dalewyn 3y ago>a small number of professionals whose job it is to advocate for the millions. That is why we ostensibly have ambassadors and embassies for the few occasions when someone must be physically present abroad. For everything else, there's Maste-- I mean your favourite means of high speed, high fidelity, instantaneous, secure telecommunications.